README.pod

expac is a data extraction tool for alpm databases.
It features printf-like flexibility and aims to be used as a simple tool for other pacman based utilities which don't link against the library.
It uses pacman.conf as a config file for locating and loading your local and sync databases.

Invoking expac consists of supplying a format string,
which is generally described by one to many of the formatting tokens (see the FORMATTING section),
any relevant options and zero to many targets.
The format string must be the first non-option argument.
Targets can be a simple package name,
a query string (in the case of a search),
or in repo/package syntax when the -sync option is supplied.